A Park City mom is aiming for 10,000 thank-you cards
Mountaineer Jenn Drummond launched a statewide gratitude drive through November. Her first two card-writing parties, in Salt Lake City and Park City, produced nearly 700 notes in a day.
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Jenn Drummond of Park City is trying to get 10,000 thank-you notes written by the end of November, KSL reported. The mother of seven, a mountaineer with two Guinness records, is asking Utahns to join card-writing parties and send the notes to people whose work usually goes unremarked.
The first two gatherings, in Salt Lake City and Park City, produced nearly 700 cards in a day. The drive runs through November. The number that matters so far is the stack already addressed, not the record she is chasing.
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Jenn Drummond lives in Park City, Utah. She is a mother of seven and a mountaineer who has set two Guinness records. From now through the end of November she wants 10,000 thank-you notes written, and she is asking other Utahns to help. The first two parties, one in Salt Lake City and one in Park City, turned out nearly 700 cards in a single day. The notes are for people who do ordinary helpful work. The goal is a big pile of specific thanks, not a trophy on a shelf.
- Who in your town does a job that rarely gets a thank-you note?
- What makes a handwritten card different from a text?
- How could a class write 30 notes without saying the same thing in each one?
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